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Word: blazes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAGUAR EXPORTS, Britain's biggest auto dollar-earner, have been badly hurt by fire at automaker's plant in Coventry, one of few British auto lines still producing at peak. Blaze damaged one-third of plant. Production-75% for export-will be stopped at least a week, will not hit full stride again for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...missed lunch, but we'll be back serving tonight, High Table and all," commented kitchen steward Pete Bowers on yesterday morning's Lowell House Dining Hall fire. The blaze broke out in the kitchen at about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grease Pot Causes Lowell House Fire | 2/12/1957 | See Source »

...class of fifth-graders. Glarner's Relational Painting Number 79 should be considered as an expression of pure design, not as art-it would make an excellent linoleum motif. Contrastingly, Loren Maclver's The Street shows a lyric tenderness; apparently there is still a bold blaze of originality in contemporary American art, for all of the maunderings of the abstract expressionists. TED LOVINGTON JR. Staten Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...pair were part of a gang of 25 who snowballed firefighters at a recent blaze near the M.I.T. campus. To make matters worse, their snowballs knocked off a fire chief's hat and hit an aide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Students Throw Snowballs at Firemen | 1/23/1957 | See Source »

...Worry. By noon on the day after Christmas, 1,000 firefighters vainly were trying to hold back the flames' onrush; they built backfires, slashed wide firebreaks around homes with shovels and bulldozers. More families were evacuated as a second, then a third blaze ignited, joining in a savage and flaming pincer-like attack of destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Fire in the Wind | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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